1 Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, D-14424 Potsdam, Germany. kurth@mpikg-golm.mpg.de and National Institute for Materials Science, 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0044, Japan.
2 National Institute for Materials Science, 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0044, Japan.
Extending macromolecular chemistry beyond carbon-based polymers offers fascinating perspectives and an enormous potential to improve the capacity of macromolecular materials with new dynamic properties.